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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
Mason Clark includes:
I must object to the misuse of the word "socialist."
Countries run by demagogues -- tyrants -- for their own
purposes are the opposite of "socialist."
Centrally-controlled economies, of which the USSR was the
prime example, are doomed to failure even under a
"socialist" banner -- they should be called "stupid," not
"socialist." They must resort to police control of the
populace because they are NOT socialist.
I suspect Mason Clark is old enough so that it is reasonable to
ask him whether he denounced the Soviet Empire as non-socialist before
it collapsed.
So far as I know, the Social-Democratic parties of Europe did not
denounce the Soviet Empire as non-socialist, although they did
criticize it from time to time.
To call it not socialist at all excuses Mason Clark and other
pro-socialists from learning anything from the disaster of "existing
socialism". "Oh, that has nothing to do with us, even though many of
the slogans are the same."
--
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
During the last years of the Second Millenium, the Earthmen complained
a lot.